Been excited to announce this for awhile: my poem, Carry Along Home, has been published in Volume 2 of Suspended Magazine.
Proud to have my poem, Beasts of our Own Legend, published in the 2023 issue of isotrope: Literary Journal. This publication is an international literary journal based out of the Finger Lakes Community College. One of the things I've found... Continue Reading →
I continue to experiment with poetry -- and, to my delight, I keep finding some success with it.
I'll be honest: I am not sure the tipping point between someone who is having fun experimenting with poetry and an actual poet, but given the amount of good poetry news I've had in the last year or so, I... Continue Reading →
I wanted to share with you a project I have been working on and published over at Substack. It's called "For Immediate Release: Essays and Lessons From 30 Years in Politics and Government."
I hope you'll visit Half and One, "a space for cartoons and comics, journalism and narrative non-fiction, poetry and fiction." There, you will find some amazing stories and original work. You will also find my poem, Alight. It is accompanied... Continue Reading →
“Well,” said Erwin, finally sitting up and taking the last sip of his honey wine. “We cannot do it alone. The job requires a third. And a third of some abundance of skill, and no small amount of magical power. We are both thinking the same thing, of this I am sure. So let me be the first to give it voice.”
I had nearly forgotten about the picture, had come so terribly close to letting it slip away from my memory forever. Weeks would go by before the amber-red flames would dance and roil in my mind’s eye once again.
One of the marketing tools used by publishers to promote books are book trailers. It's almost exactly what you think it is -- like a movie trailer, a minute or two, with maybe a voice-over, some graphics. I watched a few and decided that I'd like to make my own for Canebrake.
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